Daily Answers

1-across – Show individual and organisation, both concerned with public health : DOCTORWHO

6-across – Eighth vehicle in the outback? : BUSH

8-across – See 6 : SPEAKING

9-across – See 17 : TOOFAR

10-across – Temperature in fish ending in oven, hot : STOLEN

11-across – Daughter wearing Lincoln green, no good for the city : ABERDEEN

12-across – Small parcels dark, all together : DIMSUM

15-across – Keeping healthy ultimately, fruit on field for a longer time? : LEAPYEAR

16-across – I’m always missing wife, travelling round a country : MALAYSIA

19-across – Wearing whites, one pulls hard : HOICKS

21-across – Messenger bagging last of post for royal attendant : COURTIER

22-across – Fifth primate in the shade? : ORANGE

24-across – See 26 : GARDEN

25-across – One on the table, perhaps in the middle? : HYDROGEN

26-across – In which gorgeous trailer in red and 22 across hybridised? : ROSE

27-across – Black coat on the counter, top edge a kind of blue? : CAMBRIDGE

1-down – Storehouse where drunk turned up : DEPOT

2-down – Prince having to do his own cleaning, for the most part? : CHARLES

3-down – Tear-jerker doubly touching, I assumed : ONION

4-down – Bird narrating story of Footballers’ Wives? : WAGTAIL

5-down – See 22 : OFTHEBATH

6-down – Phrase initially described by by and large is OK, loosely : BROADLY

7-down – Cerium injected into hand, virologist admits, an experience requiring a lifeline? : SPACEWALK

13-down – Lover upended in chariot, a Roman imperialist : INAMORATO

14-down – Passionate, a miss with nice pants : MESSIANIC

17-down – War film cut excessively? : ABRIDGE

18-down – Support of women cut under a patriarch : ABRAHAM

20-down – Cross old country from the south, taking passport, say, around? : INAMOOD

22-down – Wash behind your ears? It’s an honour! : ORDER

23-down – Bird in 24, bees every second buzzing off : GREBE

9-across – Opening in Wales for distribution in bulk : WHOLESALE

10-across – Steps by Chopin after 22 down : WALTZ

11-across – I object to this agreement by Italian and African : TUTSI

12-across – One tells a story of Parisian backstreet junction without vehicle : RACONTEUR

13-across – Lucky man preserves retirement outfit : JIMJAMS

14-across – Suitable partner’s rather depleted in power : MRRIGHT

17-across – No covers needed, use just this dish : SUSHI

19-across – Staff go out with permission : MAN

20-across – Perhaps enter this to get pernickety : PICKY

21-across – Leading criminal arrayed : ALIGNED

22-across – O’Neal returned, superficially evolved and changed : MUTATED

24-across – Devilish to divine? A change of course : DEVIATION

26-across – Delicate desktop material : TWEED

28-across – Stop and chat : SPEAK

29-across – Ready and willing for run with broken tooth : HOTTOTROT

1-down – Heartless two-bit moron : TWIT

2-down – Finally, club with slogan brought up the rear : BOTTOM

3-down – Dithering ambassador, one in post : HESITATION

4-down – Most of the school is in old Chennai : MADRAS

5-down – Accessories for church people keeping pecker up : HENCHMEN

6-down – Last with songbird : SWAN

7-down – Sensitive to the French crushed garlic sandwiches : ALLERGIC

8-down – Ruler turned crazy, but not quite : CZAR

13-down – Wait for game : JUSTA

15-down – Reprise d’enfant mangé par bête noire : REPETITION

16-down – Played truant to enjoy free childhood ultimately : TOYED

18-down – Five compete in winter sports gear for workers : SKIVVIES

19-down – Timing hand slipped losing an hour of darkness : MIDNIGHT

22-down – See 13 : MINUTE

23-down – On the other hand, those people come round to the idea : THEORY

24-down – After 13 down, a little flair : DASH

25-down – Cross during bank holiday : ANKH

27-down – See 19 across : DATE

1-across – Bread Irish pub rejected in place of buns? : BARABRITH

6-across – No longer green, somewhat blue? : RIPE

8-across – Order prohibited at the last minute : TABULATE

9-across – Streaks about to happen for artist : RUBENS

10-across – Three-quarters of men making some fast moves? : CHACHA

11-across – Duty to protect or deliver from evil? : EXORCISE

12-across – Big name almost sure to avoid relegation : STAYUP

15-across – Arrest in Australian newspaper written about, seedy American thing : GARBANZO

16-across – Cover featuring stunner, smeared : LIBELLED

19-across – Fears, Caribbean style? : DREADS

21-across – Children’s book in minor novel : THEIDIOT

22-across – Somewhere in Brighton where I sunbathed audaciously, catching cold : NUDIST

24-across – Country — one hosting race at its centre : MONACO

25-across – Not entirely equipped to host opera that’s unusual : ABNORMAL

26-across – Subject of selfie repeatedly in shared image : MEME

27-across – US comedienne possibly not scratching old bottom : FUNDAMENT

1-down – See 22 across : BEACH

2-down – Hot meal without starter in fish : RAUNCHY

3-down – Crow going over a Portuguese city : BRAGA

4-down – Hazard floating in crosses initially, winger ascendant : ICEBERG

5-down – Held man had to cover up something shady : HARBOURED

6-down – Book on old server, reportedly? : REBECCA

7-down – Wee, around 568ml? : PINTSIZED

13-down – Body part malodorous, black in colour : THIGHBONE

14-down – Succeed in pronouncing fanciful name of Russian hen? : PULLITOFF

17-down – Dubai, say — Uncle Sam finally losing it : EMIRATE

18-down – Rat den I set alight : DETRAIN

20-down – Back ’urdler, say, champion : ENDORSE

22-down – Norse goddess UN leader once exalted : NANNA

23-down – Small handle for beam : SHAFT

7-across – Title and fanciful content of melodrama : EARLDOM

8-across – Is overprotective of female goats : NANNIES

9-across – Tough hour in tower : THUG

10-across – Bushes begin to grow, surprising ladies : BUDDLEIAS

12-across – Drove Sir Michael to leave the navy : HORDE

13-across – Booze consumed by trainspotter amazes revolutionary : AMARETTO

15-across – Bit of foot, including front of heel : INCH

16-across – One excluded from farewell kiss shared by couple : ADEUX

17-across – Character on staff almost split : CLEF

18-across – Butcher turns to a vegetarian option : NUTROAST

20-across – What Thatcher might use to pursue grand, selfish desire : GREED

21-across – Wind-powered vehicle of large boy with 8 for 4 : LANDYACHT

22-across – Newspaper guy dictated material : IKAT

24-across – Solve third of clues with northern barman : UNRAVEL

25-across – Thoroughgoing Democrat interrupts useless husband : INDEPTH

1-down – Women’s silvery grey tint : WASH

2-down – Log chair carved for Russian billionaire? : OLIGARCH

3-down – Lenin spent this time eluding trial : ROUBLE

4-down – Socialist and singer swapping tips on records, we hear : KARLMARX

5-down – Leaves sleazy bar, chasing topless males : ENDIVE

6-down – Half of acer turning copper, scarlet and vermilion? : REDS

11-down – Face and body of Juncker twitch in debate : DIALECTIC

12-down – She’s forbidden to eat cow, deer and sheep, reportedly : HINDU

14-down – Tendency of Todd to shed occasional tear : TREND

16-down – One breaking down badly yearns to hug boy : ANALYSER

17-down – Lines of retired setters sign up 50 to support Cuba : CLERIHEW

19-down – Books into substantial holiday home, perhaps : RENTAL

20-down – Gypsy giving it another squeeze : GITANO

21-down – Escorted round Nemo’s first sub : LEND

23-down – Ignoring the odds, hasn’t then bet : ANTE

1-across – Empty nest and no memories — bad time for OAP? : SENIOR

4-across – See 1 : MOMENT

9-across – As part of time-sharing, taking turn in house : SEMI

10-across – Horrify a mate, forgetting name for mountain area : APPALACHIA

11-across – Pensioner cycling by checkpoint made from shoddy material : CHEAPO

12-across – Out of power, allowed to be smutty? : EXPLICIT

13-across – Rest of Italian team’s smutty, reportedly : INTERLUDE

15-across – Tory wearing light blue : RACY

16-across – A Christian GP, say, covering 10 : DIOR

17-across – Remote possibility of bad luck : OFFCHANCE

21-across – One performing unprepared, left holding a hole-boring tool? On the contrary : ADLIBBER

22-across – Definitely happening — keep waiting to be connected : ONHOLD

24-across – Abundance of fast sex between dessert and coffee, ultimately : PLENTITUDE

25-across – Sign new back for present season : NOEL

26-across – Photographic chemical uncovering magic : SILVER

27-across – See 26 : IODIDE

1-down – Joyce’s alter ego, in phase with male name : STEPHEN

2-down – Writing up article about show in African capital : NAIRA

3-down – Having prolonged good luck, film here once? : ONAROLL

5-down – Kiss one of two kissers wearing very large bloomers : OXLIPS

6-down – Woman with adopted youngster eating a Mexican dish : ENCHILADA

7-down – Reticently, I log off site that’s educational : TRINITY

8-down – Fantastically fine and super, so extremely delightful? : SPLENDIFEROUS

14-down – Moving in Puck’s direction, turned up on island, then left : EMOTIONAL

16-down – See 1 : DEDALUS

18-down – On the point of cupboard love : CLOSETO

19-down – See 7 : COLLEGE

20-down – Make former pupil tell story about the origin of greed : OBLIGE

23-down – Language coming from noisy party after stripper’s act : HINDI